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09 September 2026Tinker, Tailor, Canvas, Chair: how Modernism became a Cold War secret agent.Lecture
10 June 2026John Singer Sargent and FashionLecture
13 May 2026Alchemy and Adventure: A History of Exotic Colours and Poisonous PigmentsLecture
29 April 2026Tour of Pengenna Manor, Trelill, Wadebridge, PL30 3HXVisit
08 April 2026Diego Velasquez: Painter and Courtier to Philip IV of SpainLecture
23 March 2026When England had hardly begun: Sutton Hoo and The Lindisfarne GospelsSpecial Event
11 March 2026How Great Design Influenced the RailwaysLecture
11 February 2026Carpets from the East in European Paintings: An Interwoven HistoryLecture
14 January 2026At the Sign of the Falcon: The Life and Works of Harry Murphy - Goldsmith, Silversmith and Unique EnglishmanLecture
10 December 2025Seeing in MonochromeLecture
20 November 2025Pre-Raphaelite Art and Design 1848-1914Special Event
12 November 2025King and Collector: Henry VIII and The Art of KingshipLecture
08 October 2025“The entire world on his panel”: Jan Breughel, the patience of a saint and the industry of an antLecture
10 September 2025Mid-Eighteenth Century English Rococco SilverLecture
11 June 2025Fakes and Fortunes: (or have I discovered a Constable in my attic?)Lecture
14 May 2025A Cornish Textile Renaissance: Tom Heron, Crysede and Cresta at the Birth of ModernismLecture
01 May 2025The Story of Emily, St. Ive, Liskeard - self driveVisit
09 April 2025Wild Men of the North: Tom Thomson and the Group of SevenLecture
26 March 2025The Second Sex: A Day on Women in the Italian Renaissance: Art and SocietySpecial Event
12 March 2025Vases and Volcanoes: Sir William Hamilton's CollectionLecture
12 February 2025Empowering People: the Real Voice of Street ArtLecture
08 January 2025A Bit of a Carry OnLecture
11 December 2024Covent Garden Ladies Sex and Subterfuge in Georgian LondonLecture
21 November 2024Mexican Muralism: Public Art, Identity and Collective MemorySpecial Event
13 November 2024MS.8932: A Medieval Embroidered Folded AlmanacLecture
09 October 2024A Potted History of Britain pottery from the very beginning to the industrial revolution and beyondLecture
11 September 2024Gauguin and Van Gogh - A Terrible LucidityLecture
12 June 2024The Art of the Hero: Scott of the AntarcticLecture
08 May 2024Edouard Manet and MusicLecture
17 April 2024Caerhays Castle and Spring Gardens, self-driveVisit
10 April 2024Murder most FloridLecture
27 March 2024Double Dutch: Secrets, Symbols and Hidden Meanings in Dutch 'Golden Age PaintingSpecial Event
13 March 2024Great Operatic Rivalries - handbags at dawn?Lecture
14 February 2024The Art of the AutomobileLecture
10 January 2024Food and Art through the AgesLecture
13 December 2023The Great British PantomimeLecture
22 November 2023Jewellery Discovery Day with TAS South DevonSpecial Event
08 November 2023Pevsner in CornwallLecture
11 October 2023Leonardo da VinciLecture
04 October 2023Visit to Mount Edgcumbe House and Gardens, self-driveVisit
13 September 2023Music in ArtLecture
14 June 2023Fashion, Fury and FeminismLecture
17 May 2023Visit to Port Eliot, St. Germans, self-driveVisit
10 May 2023Goya: emerging from the shadowsLecture
27 April 2023Merchant House, Launceston's History and its Castle, self-drive Visit
12 April 2023The Art of the Swinging SixtiesLecture
12 April 2023Murder Most FloridLecture
30 March 2023The Private Press Movement - 1880's to 1930Special Event
08 March 2023The Art and Culture of fin-de-siècle ViennaLecture
08 February 2023Imperial Calcutta: Arts and ArchitectureLecture
11 January 2023The Art of AdvertisingLecture
14 December 2022The History of WineLecture
23 November 2022Pharmacy History: art and artifactsSpecial Event
09 November 2022George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham - the most handsome man in 17C EuropeLecture
12 October 2022Aurel Stein and the Imperial Archaeology of the Silk RoadLecture
05 October 2022Torre Abbey, TorquayVisit
14 September 2022Raphael; Painter of PerfectionLecture
20 June 2022TAS SW Special Interest DaySpecial Event
08 June 2022The Opera Singer PhenomenonLecture
19 May 2022Visit to Hemerdon House and Saltram, PlymptonVisit
11 May 2022The Age of JazzLecture
13 April 2022The Healing Power of Plants: plant derived treatments are not an alternative, they are the real thingLecture
16 March 2022The Golden Age of English FurnitureSpecial Event
09 March 2022A Feast for the Eye: Bridget Riley and the development of Abstract PaintingLecture
09 February 2022The Arnolfini and their worldLecture
12 January 2022SS Great Britain: from Launch to Re-launchLecture
08 December 2021Is Christmas in Good Taste?Lecture
17 November 2021The Chinese Imperial Art CollectionSpecial Event
10 November 2021The Work of Angels: The Book of Kells and its contemporaries Lecture
13 October 2021Women behind the LensLecture
06 October 2021Hall Estate, North DevonVisit
08 September 2021The Most Infamous Family in History: the BorgiasLecture
09 June 2021Caravaggio: Murderer or Genius? Lecture
19 May 2021Visit to Hall Estate, North Devon (Postponed to October)Visit
12 May 2021The Elgin MarblesLecture
14 April 2021The Genius of BeethovenLecture
24 March 2021English Furniture (postponed)Special Event
10 March 2021Churchill: An inspirational life in photographs, words and paintingsLecture
03 March 2021The Glasgow Girls and a Kelvingrove QuizSpecial Event
10 February 2021Paula Rego: Painting Women on the EdgeLecture
13 January 2021The Extraordinary life of Misia Sert, “Queen of Paris” 1877-1950Lecture
09 December 2020Nothing says Christmas like an axe fight !Lecture
24 November 2020Pharmacy History: Art and Artefacts (Cancelled)Special Event
11 November 2020The Art of State Ceremonial Music Lecture
21 October 2020Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery (Cancelled)Visit
14 October 2020Garbo to Garland - The Magical Art of HollywoodLecture
07 September 2020Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's film-makerLecture
10 June 2020The Opera Singer Phenomenon (Cancelled)Lecture
20 May 2020Hall Estate, North Devon POSTPONEDVisit
13 May 2020The Age of Jazz (Cancelled)Lecture
01 May 2020Holbein to Hockney - a history of British Portrait PaintingSpecial Event
08 April 2020Art of the 21st Century (Cancelled)Lecture
11 March 2020From Downton to Gatsby: Jewellery and Fashion 1890 to 1929Lecture
03 March 2020Mid 18th Century Rococo SilverSpecial Event
12 February 2020Lawrence of Arabia: excavating a legendLecture
08 January 2020The Imperial Easter Eggs of Carl FabergéLecture
11 December 2019The Journey of the Magi: 1700 years of the Three KingsLecture
30 November 2019Artists of WWIISpecial Event
25 November 2019Last Supper in PompeiiSpecial Event
13 November 2019"Under Open Sky"Special Event
13 November 2019Pots and Frocks - the world of Grayson Perry from Essex potter to superstar National TreasureLecture
30 October 2019Knightshayes and Holcombe RogusVisit
17 October 2019The Anatomy of CollectingSpecial Event
09 October 2019The Artists of Montmartre - ‘The Pilgrims of Babylon’Lecture
11 September 2019Pugin - God’s romantic Victorian ArchitectLecture
12 June 2019From Magic Lanterns to Metro Goldwyn Mayer - the birth of the Silver Screen and the Artists it inspiredLecture
22 May 2019Tiverton CastleVisit
08 May 2019The Wilton Diptych EnigmaLecture
10 April 2019Charles Dickens - The man and his life through his charactersLecture
26 March 2019Chinese PaintingSpecial Event
13 March 2019The Huguenot Silk Weavers of Spitalfields: from Riches to RagsLecture
13 February 2019Inspired by StonehengeLecture
09 January 2019A Second Blast from the PastLecture
12 December 2018The Christmas Story: paintings of the NativityLecture
27 November 2018The Plague Years - no Tragedy, no TriumphSpecial Event
14 November 2018The Pilgrim Route to SantiagoSpecial Event
14 November 2018The role of the arts in the cycle of crime, prison and re-offendingLecture
10 October 2018A Personal Heaven; Stanley SpenserLecture
20 September 2018Tremenheere Sculpture Park and Tate St IvesVisit
12 September 2018Vivaldi in VeniceLecture
18 July 2018NADFAS 50th Anniversary CelebrationSpecial Event
13 June 2018Adventures in three dimensions: 20th Century sculpture in BritainLecture
24 May 2018Exeter Cathedral and LibraryVisit
09 May 2018Posters of the Belle Epoque, the Great Age of the PosterLecture
17 April 2018The Studio Glass Movement and Dale ChihulySpecial Event
11 April 2018Getting under their skins: finding character and story in Renaissance artLecture
14 March 2018Thomas Heatherwick: The Leonardo da Vinci of our timesLecture
14 February 2018Rescuing Zeugma from the floodwaters of the EuphratesLecture
10 January 2018The making of Landscape PhotographsLecture
13 December 2017St Nicholas of Myra and Santa ClausLecture
21 November 2017Splendours of Mexico and PeruSpecial Event
08 November 2017The Art and Meaning of MapsLecture
11 October 2017Children's Book IllustrationsLecture
21 September 2017Powderham CastleVisit
13 September 2017James GillrayLecture
14 June 2017Britain with Betjeman - his architectural opinionsLecture
18 May 2017Delamore Park and Lukesland GardenVisit
10 May 2017Meet me at the WaldorfLecture
25 April 2017How to Look at ArtSpecial Event
12 April 2017Medieval Illuminated BestiariesLecture
08 March 2017The Art of Piero della Francesca - the light of the North meets the logic of the South Lecture
08 February 2017The Phoenix at the Fall of EmpireLecture
11 January 2017Men Behaving BadlyLecture
14 December 2016A Blast from the PastLecture
17 November 2016The Magic of Colour and Light - stained glass, ancient and modernSpecial Event
09 November 2016Giotto - the Father of Modern ArtLecture
12 October 2016Life and Times of the Sundial - civilisation's most enduring timekeeperLecture
22 September 2016Sidbury Manor, DevonVisit
14 September 2016L S Lowry - a close look at a Visionary ArtistLecture
08 June 2016Legend and Lustre - Jim Thompson and Thai SilkLecture
19 May 2016Crowcombe Court near TauntonVisit
11 May 2016Love and Loss - Orpheus and Eurydice in art and musicLecture
21 April 2016Shakespeare: the plays in performance and artSpecial Event
13 April 2016Beautiful Beastly and Bizarre - the art of Hieronymous BoschLecture
09 March 2016Revolutionary Russia - the avant-garde and visual RussiaLecture
10 February 2016Hatshepsut - Portrait of a Female PharaohLecture
13 January 2016Three Great Families and their GardensLecture
09 December 2015Sing we Yule - a musical portrait of a medieval ChristmasLecture
11 November 2015The British Portrait: - Hogarth to HockneyLecture
14 October 2015The Art of WaterlooLecture
17 September 2015Tiverton Castle and Gardens and Crediton ChurchVisit
09 September 2015The Elizabethan and Jacobean Country House - architectural style and interior decorationLecture
16 June 2015Twentieth Century SculptureSpecial Event
10 June 2015Behind the Veil: the Arts of Islamic PersiaLecture
21 May 2015Forde AbbeyVisit
13 May 2015The Foundations of FashionLecture
08 April 2015Catherine the Great and her TreasuresLecture
19 March 2015The Story of the Sutton Hoo Ship BurialSpecial Event
11 March 2015Antonio GaudiLecture
11 February 2015Summer in February - the story, the artists and the filmLecture
14 January 2015Constable: the Great LandscapesLecture
10 December 2014A History of Christmas Cards, Valentine Cards and PostcardsLecture
12 November 2014The Butterfly on the Lagoon: Whistler in VeniceLecture
06 November 2014The Paintings Conservation RoadshowSpecial Event
08 October 2014The Art of SeductionLecture
18 September 2014Hartland AbbeyVisit
10 September 2014Picasso and his WomenLecture
11 June 2014Tribal Rugs - Treasures of the Black TentLecture
22 May 2014The House and Garden at Castle Hill House in DevonVisit
07 May 2014Power, Propaganda and Men in Tights: Tudor ArtLecture
09 April 2014Turner in the West CountryLecture
27 March 2014Mozart's "Cosi" - a comic opera?Special Event
12 March 2014Fine Art Forgery - Craftsmanship or Conjuring Trick?Lecture
12 February 2014One Architect, Two Temples, Three Museums: Lecture
08 January 2014Cornwall's stained glass Crown JewelsLecture
11 December 2013Merrily on High - The history of the English Christmas CarolLecture
13 November 2013Mrs Beeton Presents...Lecture
08 November 2013Painting a watercolour - DIY Special Event
09 October 2013Are You Sitting Comfortably? The history of the chair from ancient to modern timesLecture
19 September 2013Cothay Manor & Willows and Wetlands Centre on the Somerset LevelsVisit
11 September 2013Klimt and the Viennese Secession - A Kiss for all the WorldLecture
12 June 2013Marc Chagall, Wandering Jew or Citizen of the World?Lecture
16 May 2013Ugbrooke HouseVisit
08 May 2013Life and Art of Marianne NorthLecture
10 April 2013Wonder Workers and the Art of IllusionLecture
21 March 2013Sticky Tape, Moths and MenSpecial Event
13 March 2013To Hell and Back - Painted Church InteriorsLecture
13 February 2013True Colour?Lecture
09 January 2013Don’t Make Fun of the Festival ArtLecture
12 December 2012Prelude to Christmas: a celebration of Advent and ChristmasLecture
01 November 2012La Traviata: a Very Italian AffairSpecial Event
20 September 2012Fursdon HouseSpecial Event
14 March 2012The symbolism of flowers in artLecture
08 February 2012Photographic Odyssey:Shackleton’s Endurance Expedition captured on cameraLecture
11 January 2012John Opie – the Cornish WonderLecture